pony express
Example Sentences
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Stagecoach services, like the pony express, took days to traverse the gutted tracks across the wilderness that still separated America’s nascent cities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 28, 2025
Why would anyone deliver a thumb drive by pony express or carrier pigeon when the internet was made for the purpose of quickly and easily delivering data electronically?
From Slate • Dec. 14, 2018
Filippini and other ranchers have sued, staged a "pony express" protest ride on horseback to Washington, D.C., and petitioned for Furtado's ouster.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2016
Air Micronesia�"Air Mike," as it is known locally�is the pony express of the Pacific.
From Time Magazine Archive
The firm of Russel, Majors & Waddel spent $700,000 on the pony express during the eighteen months of its 273 life; they took in something less than $500,000.
From When the West Was Young by Bechdolt, Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie)
